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[–] bulrush ago 

The cheapest water filter per gallon of water is the Big Berkey. It's $300usd and filters 10,000 gallons on one set of filters. So the cost is 3 cents per gallon.

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[–] ALIENS2222 [S] ago  (edited ago)

So I am in the states. I have a rainwater collection system at my place since I live off the grid. I simply could NOT find a way to treat a tank of rainwater! Not kidding but there is no place in the states that will sell this shit. Not Amazon, not water treatment places, not trailer places NOTHING. But there are tons of places in Australia, NZ and GB that sell this stuff. Like it is super common and cheap there but exists at no price at all here in the states beyond tiny tiny camping -tier stuff at high prices. The guys in OZ won't ship to the US but these Brits will. So if you prepper types need a source for large scale... like thousand gallon scale water purification this is the ticket. This bucket will treat water for a family for years and years and years from the looks of it.

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[–] totes_magotes 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Bleach loses strength as time passes. So that bottle of bleach sitting in your laundry room that you bought 5 years ago is nowhere near as strong as it was when you bought it.

One of the "hidden" tricks of treating rainwater and water in tanks is to use pool shock. Shelf stable, buy in bulk, relatively cheap. And most people aren't going to know what the fuck to do with it so in a SHTF situation, if someone is ransacking your property, they'll likely leave it alone because they won't know what it's good for.

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[–] totes_magotes 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Learn how to use pool shock to purify and treat water.

https://www.backdoorsurvival.com/how-to-use-pool-shock-to-purify-water/

There are more than a few benefits to doing it this way.

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[–] DammitMan 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

That's cool to know. And if SHTF, looters won't have " any use" for it. Pool shock is also used in many homemade laundry soap recipes. I store it in a 2 gal plastic bucket in a shed.